She started by giving life again to forgotten designers from the 1930s: René Herbst, Jean-Michel Frank, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Gaudi, Eileen Gray... “My only concern was to interest at least ten persons and I would have accomplished something which would carry me for all my life”.
She found after working with Sugawara for four years that she had developed the lacquer disease on her hands, but she persisted in her work and it was not until 1913, when she was thirty-five, that she exhibited any.
In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia which she had painted.
Fielding Gray | Gray Davis | Gray's Inn | Macy Gray | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Eileen Myles | Asa Gray | Thomas Gray | Gray | Alasdair Gray | Harrison Gray Otis | Charles Gray | William M. Gray | John Edward Gray | Gray's Anatomy | Eileen Ivers | Tamyra Gray | Robert Gray | Harrison Gray Otis (lawyer) | Eileen Ford | Christopher Gray | Spalding Gray | Michael Gray | Justin Gray | John N. Gray | gray whale | Gray, Northern Territory | George Kruger Gray | Eileen Gray | Dobie Gray |
Each issue of L’Architecture Vivante routinely presented a number of architects and their works, but a few issues were devoted to a single designer (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and, in 1929, Eileen Gray and her home E-1027).
Designed in 1927 as a bedside table for the guest room in E-1027, the home Eileen Gray designed for herself (and Jean Badovici) in Cap Martin, France, the asymmetry of this piece is characteristic of her "non-conformist" design style in her architectural projects and furniture.
This is particularly true of Mes Mauvaises Pensées (My Bad Thoughts) which bears the imprint of Hervé Guibert, Annie Ernaux, David Lynch, Eileen Gray, and Violette Leduc amongst others.